Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation
The natural home for all people working in highways & transportation infrastructure.
- Date
- 15 April 2024
- Time
- 17:30 - 19:45 BST (GMT+1)
- Location
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0G.012 Lecture Theatre David Keir Building Queen's University Belfast Belfast, BT9 5AG United Kingdom
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Overview
Join us for this joint ICE and CIHT event to hear about key developments in carbon management, including case studies and best practice. Learn more about the PAS 2080 standard for carbon management in infrastructure and the built environment, and join in a discussion with our expert panel.
PAS 2080 is globally applicable standard for managing carbon in buildings and infrastructure. It looks at the whole value chain and aims to reduce carbon and cost through intelligent design, construction and use.
An update to the standard was published in 2023, sponsored by the ICE, which is freely available. There is also a supporting guidance document.
PAS 2080:2023 not only promotes reduced carbon but encourages increased value delivery, a culture of challenging convention as well as fostering other co-benefits such as climate resilience and nature-based solutions.
In this event, we will hear about the standard’s newly broadened scope from one the technical authors of PAS 2080, Mimi Zimmer. She will discuss how the standard can be used as part of a systems approach to whole-life carbon management and its application using the ‘PAS City’ example featured in the guidance document. In addition, we will hear from Sian Kerr, Director of Transport Planning and Policy, DfI, who will discuss the strategic challenges in decarbonising infrastructure and from David Deakin, Technical Director, AECOM, who will discuss the development of the Road Emissions Model for Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII).
The event will close with an interactive conversation, chaired by ICE Vice President David Porter.
Speakers
David Porter
Institution of Civil Engineers
vice president
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David Porter
David Porter is the Vice President of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) and will, subject to interim annual election by Council, become President in November 2025. As VP he has responsibility for the ICE Learning Society activity.
He is Director of Engineering and Services with the Department for Infrastructure (DfI) in their Transport and Road Asset Management core group, which is the roads authority for Northern Ireland.
David is the director of engineering within the Department for Infrastructure, In this position, David is the chief highways engineer and the head of the civil engineering profession within the Northern Ireland civil service. . Previously, he was the Chief Executive of Rivers Agency, the flood defence and drainage authority for Northern Ireland.
David is a Chartered civil engineer, a Fellow of ICE, and has served on its Council, and on numerous other committees and Panels.
Mimi Zimmer
Mott MacDonald
senior carbon management consultant
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Mimi Zimmer
Mimi is one of the technical authors of PAS 2080:2023 Carbon Management in Buildings and Infrastructure.
Mimi has worked with clients across sectors applying carbon management processes, including assessing carbon emissions and identifying priority carbon reduction opportunities.
Mimi supports Mott MacDonald's own corporate carbon commitments as technical lead on carbon credits and removals.
Based in Mott MacDonald’s Energy Unit, she has worked with the UK Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (and its predecessor, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy) on various programmes aimed at accelerating the UK's transition to a net zero economy, including as the programme manager for the launch of the Programme of Improvements to the UK’s National Greenhouse Gas Inventory and by supporting the Department’s Energy Innovation Programme and Net Zero Innovation Portfolio.
Sian Kerr
Department for Infrastructure
director of transport planning and policy
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Sian Kerr
Sian leads the Department for Infrastructure’s development of the Transport Strategy, a suite of Transport Plans and, as transport sector lead, plans to decarbonise transport in line with the emerging Climate Action Plan.
David Deakin
AECOM
technical director, air quality & permitting, environment, water & energy, EMEA
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David Deakin
Úna Barrett
Felix O’Hare & Co
construction carbon associate
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Úna Barrett
Úna Barrett, in her role as construction carbon associate at Felix O’Hare & Co, is working in collaboration with Queen’s University on a two-year Knowledge Transfer Partnership to investigate the embodied carbon cost of construction and explore role of the contractor in measuring and mitigating emissions on sites across Northern Ireland and Ireland. Úna holds an MSc in Urban Planning & Design and has worked in the planning and waste management sector, conducting research into the carbon cost of waste management and the circular economy in Northern Ireland. A passionate environmentalist, she partook in the KNIB Climate Change Makers Programme and was awarded Young Change Maker of the Year at the 2023 All-Ireland Sustainability Awards.
